Live Performance by The Edo Castro Quartet at the Fall 2009 Yerba Buena Gallery Walk Date/Time/Admission: SATURDAY | OCTOBER 24th | 3pm-4:30pm | FREE Location: 111 Minna Street (between Howard and Mission St.), SF, CA. The Edo Castro Quartet is: Edo Castro- bass, Erik Lindquist- guitar, Alex Aspinall- drums, Dan Zinn- sax “Accomplished composer and […]
Grammy Award Winner Mark Isham is playing a beautiful trumpet part on the title track of Castro’s upcoming release, Sacred Graffiti!
Greetings! Sacred Graffiti is available now on https://www.passionstarmusic.com. There are pop-out players available for listening to this beautiful project while you browse the site or the internet- both the complete CD with sound design as well as the “singles” versions. You can also purchase the mp3/AIFF singles tracks, buy the CD and/or purchase & download […]
LARKSPUR, CA, June 05, 2009 “This is one of the most beautiful bass solo pieces I’ve ever heard. I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of Edo before. Where have I been?” – YouTube Fan viewing “Rain”, written & performed by Edo Castro. Currently, Passion Star Records’ artist Edo Castro is recording & mixing his latest […]
The Denver Bass Bash, Blue Sky Collective, Circle K Strings, APC Instruments and Knuckle Guitar Works present: Kick off the Denver Bass Bash concert series! with Edo Castro and Christopher Cardone on June 7, at 1pm. Denver Bass Bash Concert series at Blue Sky Collective! 9635 W. Colfax Lakewood, CO 80215 303-238-0959
May 9th, a beautiful sunny day at Skywalker Ranch in Nicasio, CA. Passionstar’s Edo Castro spent the day in the soundstage at Skywalker Sound. It was an amazing day featuring Passionstar’s Ray Cooper/Producer, Leslie Ann Jones & Team/Engineering and a variety of musicians including Erik Lindquist/guitar, Alex Aspinall/drums, Dan Zinn/Sax, Jonathan Moe/drums, percussion. More news […]
Edo is currently working on his 3rd Release with special guest bassist David Friesen, Michael Manring and Percy Jones. Edo is also planning a Bass project involving Stew McKinsey and Yves Carbonne.
Edo is preparing to return to Skywalker Sound in Spring of 2009 with his latest material. He is rehearsing musicians currently. More Studio News Soon!
As 2008 winds to a close, Edo has spent his time since early fall rehearsing & writing for his upcoming projects for 2009.. He has also been collaborating with various artists, including Eric “Doc” Smith whos electric drummstick rhythms can be found accompanying Edo at various performances & festivals on a variety of shared material […]
Check out Edo’s piece on Jaco Pastorius featured on RARWRITER.com at https://www.rarwriter.com. To gain further perspective into the influence that Jaco Pastorius had on subsequent generations of bass players, RAR went to San Francisco bass player extraordinaire Edo Castro (left). The ultra-articulate Edo, who in 2006 released his album Phoenix (Passion Star Records), which explored […]
For many of us, Edo’s first CD entitled simply – EDO – has been “off the shelf” unless you’ve been fortunate enough to buy a copy at one of his gigs. In the next couple of months, you’ll be able to find EDO on iTunes as well as Amazon.com, Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster, etc.
MANRING KASSIN DARTER with Edo Castro and E. “Doc” Smith – Saturday, April 12 8:00pm $20.00 General Admission, $15.00 Students $22.00 General Admission, Day of Show Buy tickets at TicketWeb or by calling 415.383.9600 “Mindboggling musicianship and complex, provocative compositions. Darter, Manring and Kassin are all-around awesome!” – Greg Rule, Keyboard magazine Performing “chamber music […]